Can we make love in the morning without any expectation of marriage? Clearly Jay hadn’t heard of the pre-nup, but it’s a theme he revisited regularly, most notably on “Big Pimpin'”

Many chicks wanna put Jigga’s fists in cuffs
Divorce him and split his bucks
Just because you got good head, I'mma break bread
So you can be living it up

He would mellow on the topic in later years, notably 2002’s “Excuse Me Miss”.

Love let’s go half on a son,

J. Cole did a whole song referencing this line; entitled In The Morning (Remix).

“Pussy popping” is a dance move where a girl stands on her head or hands, spreads her legs and “pops” her pussy. See this Ludacris video, for example

The last two lines evoke an image of Lil Wayne driving a sick car, accompanied by dancing girls (the car itself is dancing as well), blowing by/laughing at cops

Or maybe there aren’t girls at all, perhaps he put hydraulics on his Maserati and now he’s making it “dance” on a bridge and just for fun he decides to call it “pussy popping” because the ass end of the car lifts and drops lifts and drops BOOM

“You’re tough, but I’m tougher.”

That seems to be the obvious interpretation. But then Weezy answered a question about the line in an ESPN blog post and managed to make me more confused.

Reader Question: Why is a goon nothing compared to a goblin? And are the Raiders the Goons of the NFL and the Titans the Goblins?
Lil Wayne’s Answer: Let’s say you’re a goon. Well, what’s a goon to a goblin? Nothing. They’re the same thing. So are the Raiders goons and the Titans the goblins? No, because the Titans are having an amazing year and the Raiders have been not so amazing. If you’re going for a goons and goblins reference, I would say if you’re calling Oakland goons I would use Jacksonville or St. Louis as goblins. Or if you want to use the Titans as goons, the Giants would be your goblins. You gotta pick teams that are on the same page when you making that analogy.

Wayne would later re-use the goon/goblin comparison as part of his hook in “We Be Steady Mobbin” featuring Gucci Mane.

Some might say Lil Wayne’s toughness stems not only from his “goblin” status, but from the fact that he (and, let’s face it, only he) really knows the relation of a goon to a goblin.

Based off of Wayne’s own words, this line equates his enemies as goons to goblins, they’re the same thing. So when you compare a goon to a goblin, there’s nothing to compare, since they’re the same. Translation: his enemies are nothing, which he states in the following line.

“I can create a lot of value from one little crack rock” – like making a mountain out of a molehill, but in a good way

More broadly, this ability defines his life — making a lot (riches, rap dominance) out of a little (born poor, small guy)

Also a biblical reference to the last sentence in Daniel 2:35.

It is also a wordplay on rock and mountain.

He’s not going as far as implying that sharing showers is the worst part about jail, but it’s the sort of “I’m not gay” (no homo) statement that’s common in rap – Weezy would rather die than end up in jail and in the line of bad touches; ironically, Lil Wayne went to prison in 2010 for gun possession charges.

Hip-hop reflectionist and sociologist Michael Eric Dyson recited these two lines during a panel at Brown University, explaining why they’re important in hip-hop:

[It] is an interesting couplet because it gives rise to the post-industrial incarceration of African-American and Latino men disproportionately […] That incarceration cannot, in any stretch of the imagination, be ascribed to the preoccupation within rap lyrics and the glorification of prison as the locus classicus for the primary spot, for the development of Black identity, as the ideal spot with which Blackness can be located. Maybe the argument should be the reason prison becomes such an imaginative spot within the context of African-American rhetoric is because it has been thrust upon Black men as an unavoidable feature of their existence.

Mike Lowrey is Will Smith’s character in Bad Boys 1 and 2. He was very good with the ladies

Fabolous, in his own version of “A Milli”, references I am Legend:

‘Til these motherfuckers know that I Am Legend
Call me Big Willy motherfucker

Wayne himself also references Will Smith and I Am Legend on Let The Beat Build from the same album.

An IOU is a promise to pay someone money (short for “I owe you”). Wayne uses two vowels (“O” and “U”) to say this.

In a tasty yet subtle double entendre, Weezy is also saying that not only will he waste neither sentences nor words on you, but he will not so much as give you a couple of (free) letters.

Furthermore, “owe” contains two vowels (o and e) and is a diphthong, with two vowels: /oʊ/.

Kendrick Lamar says a similar thing on Big Sean’s “Control.”

Bic owns the disposable lighter market. Flame refers to a gun as does toast, chopper, etc. The track also nods to Wayne’s hit, “Fireman.”

Also sounds like he’s saying “My name ain’t Big” because his name is “Lil” Wayne.

Cash Money, Wayne’s label, even released special “Fireman” lighters for the track!

Interesting to note that one of Waynes’s ad-lib is the sound of lighter.